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Meanings of tumulus in English
Mound of earth and stones raised over graves.
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Usage of tumulus in English
1
Not the to-morrow of the tumulus, the hour of the sunshine now.
2
Moreover, the Watchstone is equidistant from the ring and from the tumulus.
3
We made our way to the tumulus of Achilles, some distance away.
4
Then they slew his horse and his wife, and raised the tumulus.
5
Their real world was the place of burial,-thegrave, the tumulus.
6
They went along by the hill; the tumulus was left behind.
7
Here this moment, by this tumulus, on earth, now; I exist in it.
8
It is covered by a tumulus nearly 200 feet in diameter.
9
The tumulus of Achilles was only a short distance from the Greek ships.
10
On returning homewards towards Eastbourne stay awhile by the tumulus on the slope.
11
But the tumulus excited more attention, and I was requested to examine it.
12
The Celtic dolmen and cromlech, the Etruscan tumulus, the Hebrew galgal, are words.
13
The tumulus near Mersyn, the port of Tarsus, was plainly visible.
14
While we had been at the tumulus, soldiers had been readying the beach.
15
In the centre was a hillock or tumulus, surmounted by a scorched hawthorn.
16
In the centre was a hillock or tumulus, surmounted by a sorched hawthorn.
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